Playing traditional board games and cracking fiendish puzzles on a regular basis can be some of the most effective ways of keeping your brain sharp – and we’ve got a great range of courses coming up at Build for fans of cryptic challenges and tactical tinkering in backgammon, bridge, chess and crosswords. In this article, we’ll be taking a look at how you can become a champion crossworder…

Regularly told by colleagues that you have funny bones? Caught your friends stealing your jokes or witty anecdotes for themselves? Then it might just be the right time to consider a career in comedy. If making people laugh is your forte, Build have a number of great courses available for budding comedians. We recently chatted to Build comedy tutor Chris Head to find out about his career in comedy…

Fan of all things Stateside? At Build you can take a look at the United States’ complex political structures, and explore the importance of American film, culture and literature to the rest of the world over the last century. Here’s a choice cut of just some of our courses exploring historical and contemporary America…